Peter Schmeichel: Day I pushed Fergie too far

The manager threatened to sack me after a furious row but these things happen when passions run high

We live in a country that, at any time now, might be going to war but you wouldn’t have known it last week. The coverage given to one small cut on David Beckham’s head was way out of proportion, even by the standards of a media that builds things up whenever they get a sniff of a story involving Manchester United.

Last Tuesday, the main headline on Sky News was that Sir Alex Ferguson was about to hold a press conference arranged so he could apologise for the Beckham incident. In truth, it was just the press conference he is duty bound to give before every Champions League game. In the television commentary when United played Juventus, there were so many references to the incident that it became embarrassing.

A dressing room is a sacred place and what happens there, stays there. This is especially true of Manchester United where,